Updated: All the #ICRA2020 plenary and keynote videos

by Sabine Hauert

24 June 2020

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ICRA 2020, one of the main international robotics conferences, is happening online this year due to COVID-19. That means there is loads of free content you can view from home. It’s a great way to see what’s happening in the field straight from those pushing the state of the art.

Plenaries and Keynotes are being broadcast from June 1 to 15 at 1PM UTC on IEEE.TV. We’ve embedded all the talks below, and will keep updating throughout the conference. Check out the online programme for more great content, including workshops and tutorials.

Plenary Panel	Chair: Wolfram Burgard	Monday, June 1, 1PM UTC
Covid-19: How Can Roboticists Help? *Ken Goldberg,* UC Berkeley, Moderator	Robin Murphy, Texas A&M, USA Brad Nelson, ETH Zurich, CH Richard Voyles, Purdue, USA Kris Hauser, UIUC, USA Antonio Bicchi, I-RIM, Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics, USA	Gangtie Zheng, Tsinghua U, PRC Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech, USA Kirsten Thurow, CELISCA Rostock, Ge Helen Grenier, ASAALT, USA Howie Choset, CMU, USA Guang-Zhong Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong U, PRC

Plenaries
Lydia E. Kavraki	Planning in Robotics and Beyond	Tuesday June 2, 1PM UTC
Yann LeCun	Self-Supervised Learning & World Models	Wednesday June 3, 1PM UTC
Jean-Paul Laumond	Geometry of Robot Motion: from the Rolling Car to the Rolling Man	Thursday June 4, 1PM UTC


Keynotes
Allison Okamura	Haptics for Humans in a Physically Distanced World	Monday June 8, 1PM UTC
Kerstin Dautenhahn	Human-Centred Social Robotics: Autonomy, Trust and Interaction Challenges	Tuesday June 9, 1PM UTC
Pieter Abbeel	Can Deep Reinforcement Learning from pixels be made as efficient as from state?	Wednesday June 10, 1PM UTC
Jaeheung Park	Compliant Whole-body Control for Real-World Interactions	Thursday June 11, 1PM UTC
Cordelia Schmid	Automatic Video Understanding	Friday June 12, 1PM UTC
Cyrill Stachniss	Robots in the Fields: Directions Towards Sustainable Crop Production	Monday June 15, 1PM UTC
Toby Walsh	How long before Killer Robots?	Tuesday June 16, 1PM UTC
Hajime Asama	Robot Technology for Super Resilience – Remote Technology for Response to Disasters, Accidents, and Pandemic	Wednesday June 17, 1PM UTC

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Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory

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